The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-11-03

Why We Should Forgive -III-HumOr EK-
haustng to Physical and Mental Health
Those WAC Preserve Their Temper in Ds-
bate Generally Come ut Ahead.
B8ooKLl y, Oct. 23.-The Rev. T. De
Witt Tnlmage, y. ~, preached in the
Brooklyn aue nacle this n' rniug on tho
sui jert: orgiyeness e-o sundown."
Arer explain ng ONE lHs-ages concerning
HeZeklab, DR.. L Ina gave ont the lo!-
lowing hymn, VIII Oh YVES sung by the COLI
gregation:
Ills glorious hop roVvos
Ou" ur ~ by Q o wA',
Viii ouch IN p ctLti N live8
Aud longs TO SO the dnv.
, Prof. Henry Eyre RruWne rendered on
the organ an arin Ii variations, by
Cramer. ] he text o the Sermon waI from
lphesiuns ly, ~: "Lel oil the sun 40
down upon your wrath" DIR. IaImnge
8. i'll
~ hat a pillow embroldered of all colors
hath the &ying dny. lhe cradle Of clouds
from which the sun rises is beau ul
euou h, luL 1t is surL Lassed y tue many
coored mausoleum n WI ich ut evening It
j. buried. Sunset among h. mountaIns!
Ii almost takes on''s hie.l away 10 recall
the scene The long shadows size ching
over the plain make the the glorv of the
departing Ii ht on The tIptop cragS and
struck aslant through the foliage The more
tInnspicuous. Saffron and gold, purple
and crimson comm ngled. All The castles
of cloud in GONNA ration. Burn n Mo-
cows on the sky. Hnn4ing gardens OF
roses nt their dee ct lusn. Banne 8 OF
vaporS, red MS if from carna' G, in the battle
of the elements. 7 be hunter among the
Ad rondacks and the Swiss Ni,lager among
the lps now what is Il sunset among the
mountlins. After o storm It sea the roll
ing gran ienr into winch lie sun goes down
10 alhe the niy hllull is something to make
weird and splendid dreams out OF for a
lifetime. AleNander Smith i'll lis poem
| compares The sunset 10 the barren beach
of hell" ut this wonderful specla"le Of
nature makes me hiuk OF the FURNISHED
| wall OF Heaven, Paul in prison Writing
my text remember, some of the gorgeous
| sunsets among the mountains OF Asia
Minor, and how be had often seen the
towers OF damascus hli2e in the close Of
tie Oriental days, and he flashed ont that
! mOry in the to i when he saV&: Let
| not The sun go down uuon your wrath"
Sublime AMI al suggestive duty for peo-
pie then and eople now. Forgiveness be-
10 Bunduwn. lie who never ieels the
| can walk umoug lie IN ustlce5 of the world,
| inflicted upon HIM elf and others, without
| flush of cheek or fash Of eyes or agitation
\ of nature, is either i'll SYM athy with wrong
| or semi-idiOtic. When Anauias, the high
| priest ordered the conStable5 of the court
/ room 10 sm te Paul in the mouth, Paul
| tired up and said: "God will smte thee,
| thou whited wall" In the sentence i'm
mediately before my text Paul commands
| the EphesiRns: "Be We angry and sin not. "
| 1t all depends on what you are mad at and
how long the feeling lasts whether anger is
| right or wrong. Life is full of eXaspera-
! tions. Saul after David, Succoth after
| Gideon, Korah after Moses, the Paaquins
after Augustus, the Pharisees after Christ,
| aud every one hns had his pursuers, and
| we are swindled or belied or misrepre-
| sented or persecuted or in some way
wronged, and The danger is that healIhful
| indignation shall become baleful spite,
and that our feelings settle down into
! prolonged outpouring of temper displeas-
| ing to God and ruinous 10 ourselves, and
! hence the important injunction of the
| text: LET not the sun go down on your
| wrath"
| Why that limitation TO ones angerP Why
| that period Of flaming vapor set 10 pune
tuate q flaming dispesitionP What has the
sunset got to do with ones resentful
| emotions? Was il haphazard sentiment
written by Paul without special signii-
cancer No, no; think of Eve reasons
/, why we should not let the sun set before
our temper sets.
First, because twelve hours is long
! enough to be cross about any wrong in
flcted upon us. Nothing is SO exhausting
TO physical health or mental faculty as q
| protracted indulgence of i'll humor. II
| racks the nervous system. 1t hurts the
digestion, it heats the blood in brain and
heart until the whole body is first over
heated and then depressed. Besides that
it sours the disposition, turns one aside
| from his legitimate work, expends energies
that ought to be better employed, and does
us more harm than it does our antagonist.
Paul gives us good, wide allowance OF
time for legitimate denuneiation, from
o'clock to o'clock, but says: "Stop
there" Watch the descending orb Of day,
and when it reaches the horizon take O
reef in your disposition. Unloose your
collar and cool off. Change the subject to
something delightfully."- pleasant. Unroll
| your tight fist and shake hands with some
one. Bank up the fires at the curfew bell.
Drive the growing dog of enmity back to
its kennel. The hours Of this morning
will pass by, and the afternoon will ar
rive, and the sun will begin to set, and
beg you on its blazing hearth throw oil
| your feuds, invectives, and satiTes.
Other things being equal, the man who
preserves good temper will come out
ahead. An old essnyist says that the cele-
brated John Henderson, of Bristol, En-
gland, was at dining party where
political excitement ran high aud the de-
bate got angry, and while Henderson was
speaking his opponent. unable TO answer
his argument, dashed o glass Of wine in
his face, when the speaker deliberately
wiped the liquid from his face and said
"This, sir, is digressiOn; now, If you
please, for the main argument" While
worldly philosophy could help but very
few 10 such equipOise OF spirit The grace
of God could help any man to such tri-
umph. impossible" you say. "I would
have either left the table in anger or have
knocked the man down." But ! have
come to believe that nothing is impossible,
if God help, since what | saw at Beth
Shan faith cure in London, England, two
summers ago. While the religious service
was going ON Rev. Dr. Boardman, glorious
man, since gone to his heavenly rest, was
telling the scores Of sick people present
that Christ was there Gs OF old TO heal oil
diseases, and that, If they would only be :
lieve, their sickness would depart. I saw
woman near me, with hand and arm
twisted of rheumatism, and her wrist was
fiery with inflammation, and it looked like
those cases OF chronic rheumatism which
We have all seen and sympathized with,
cases beyond all human healing. At the
preachers reiIeration Of the words: "Will
you believe? Do you believe? Do you
believe now2" heard this poor sick
woman say, with an emphasis which
sounded through the building: "I do be-
lieve." And then she laid her twisted arm
and hand out rs straight as your arm and
hand, or mine. If had seen one rise
from the dend would not have been much
more thrilled. Since then l believe that